The ongoing conversation
Work, technology, games, books, and the things that catch my attention.
So this was, perhaps, my 18th consecutive Gen Con; I believe my streak started in 1995. This year, as last year, I boothed for IELLO Games USA. I had many friends among the nearly 50,000 attendees, a few of which I actually managed to have conversations with, but others whose presence I was only aware […]
These are from my contributions to a two-year-old Twitter meme #minoranagrambooks: The Lord of the Grins The Little Pincer Anne of Green Bagels The Scrotal Web Harry Potter and the Holy Lad’s Wealth The Very Hungry Cellar Tapir James Clavell’s Hung So Frank Herbert’s Nude What Color Is Up Your Trachea? Others’ here: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23minoranagrambooks Feel free […]
This is part 2 of the interview with singer-songwriter Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum (Hannah Jensen and Geoffrey Wilson). I posted the first part a while back, but transcribing my audio files takes an incredibly long time. If you don’t just sit down and get it done. Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum kicked off […]
In one of those serendipitous moments of webcomic synchronicity, today’s Pain Train: was followed shortly by today’s XKCD: So look to the skies! If you see evidence of an impending extinction-level event, post it to Instagram! (And check Snopes before sharing it on Facebook, please.) —jhunterj
Back in August, Reaper Miniatures had an insanely successful Kickstarter campaign to launch their “Bones” line of plastic miniatures. By the end of the campaign, the add-on stretch goals were enough to entice even me, who’s never painted a miniature before, to get in on it. And then the penultimate stretch goal was Kaladrax Reborn. […]
The Miami Valley Restaurant Association partnered with Yuengling this past weekend to bring Dayton “Brews, Bands, & BBQ” at Carillon Park this weekend. I got there in time for Love and Theft‘s set (and for the closing bars of Parmalee‘s set). Randy Houser came on later in the evening. And of course, it was another […]
This is actually part of the the interview, with singer-songwriter Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum (Hannah Jensen and Geoffrey Wilson). This first part is almost exclusively Aly, though. Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum kicked off a tour of the Midwest with a stop on May 22 at Ghostlight Coffee in Dayton, Ohio. It […]
There’s a blog post out on Summation.net from a few years back about the erosion of online anonymity: “The Erosion of Online Anonymity (and How to Restore It)” Back then, I tweeted the blog post along and forwarded to the guys at Catan LLC, since they love seeing Catan mentioned in non-game-industry media. I also […]
I’m still playing with the Pivothead Glasses, this time on a half-mile jog through Stubbs Park. This is a portion of the 3-mile walk-and-jog that I was doing more regularly last year, before tearing a tendon, and the glasses are giving me the incentive to get back into it. Overhead view to the right, point-of-view […]
So Aly Tadros, my close personal friend of several days now, started a tour of the Midwest right at Dayton’s very own Ghostlight Coffee, along with Jus Post Bellum. They played Ghostlight Afterhours on Wednesday night, to an inexplicably spartan audience. The last time Aly was in town, the place was packed, but that was on […]